“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”
Colossians 1:15
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Connection with the creation
Paul calls Christ the image of the invisible God, in whom all things were created, and so reaches back to Genesis 1. John opened his Gospel with the same opening words as Genesis and said the Word was with God and was God, and that through Him everything came to be (John 1:1-3).
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Adam and Noah bore God's image in a broken way. Here the Greek word for image is eikon, the flawless likeness the rest of us carry only in fragments. The Son bears it fully, and the aim of salvation is that we are "conformed to the image of His Son" (Romans 8:29).
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Cross-References
Humanity created in the image of God — but the image was marred by sin. Paul reveals Jesus as 'the image of the invisible God.' He's what we were meant to look like.
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
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